Lecture-seminar "Global Financial Crisis and the Future of Banking"

On 13th of November, 14:30, room No. 704 the experts of CATALYST – Mr. Paul Dobbs, who has over 15 years of experience in markets and risk regulation, and Mr. Christian Lee – the expert of clearing and derivative markets regulation, will lead a lecture-seminar "Global Financial Crisis and the Future of Banking". The guests are invited by Department of Financial Engineering.

CATALYST is an international and fast becoming the leading independent consulting firm specializing exclusively in financial services. Their advisory and consulting capabilities are uniquely coupled with learning and development expertise. They accelerate business, technology, operational and human performance.

Mr. Christian Lee is responsible for heading up the Clearing, Risk and Regulatory capability group. He has led and overseen multiple assignments for many exchanges and CCPs across the globe providing advice on how to implement clearing strategies. He also provides regulatory support to the various change programmes underway at clients. A risk manager by training, prior to joining Catalyst he headed up the SwapClear risk team and was responsible for the successful wind-up of the Lehmans OTC portfolio in 2008.

Mr. Paul Dobbs is a risk and regulatory specialist having worked within the sectors of banking and capital markets for approximately 15 years; initially within banking, a global credit rating agency and then risk, analytics & regulatory technology. The combination of hands on practical experience combined with the knowledge of the key risk & regulatory technologies (including regtech) implemented across the banks operating models has allowed Paul to better understand the key processes and workflows impacting their day-to-day operations. His product knowledge spans across fixed income, derivatives/structured credit, equities through to alternative investments.

In the lecture you will learn more about The Global Financial Crisis, how did it compare to the Great Depression and what was the real impact. You learn more on how did it come about, more about poor understanding of the risks around newly created instruments, etc.
In addition, the topics of new risks, new business models, shadow banking and Brexit will be discussed.

Welcome all who are interested or want to know more about threats and opportunities in financial markets.

Moderator of lecturer - doc. dr. Algita Miečinskienė.

Second retake of exams

Not later than day before the exam you must register in the Department of e-mail crypt:PGEgaHJlZj0ibWFpbHRvOmZpbmFuc3Uua2F0ZWRyYUB2Z3R1Lmx0Ij52dmZpQHZndHUubHQ8L2E+:xx

Information for IVfm-17, VFfmuc-17, FEfmu-17 and FEfmuc-17 groups students

On 12th December 2018 6:00 PM (auditorium will be published later) Master degree students of second course (IVfm-17, VFfmuc-17, FEfmu-17 and FEfmuc-17) will have additional check of master final thesis. During the check, students must have report of final thesis prepared 90 percent and students must be ready to present it (presentation with slide show about 7-10 minutes). Report of final thesis must be with signature of student's supervisor and evaluation (how prepared percent).

Students will have to bring fully prepared final thesis to Department of Financial Engineering (SRK-I 606) 2nd on January 2019.
Public presentation (defence) of master final thesis will be 10th on January 2019.

Master thesis example you could findhere.
More information about preparation of final thesis you could find here.